History Quiz

[USViking]

How did the 30 Years War begin ? (an amazing and quite funny act )

The "Defestration of Prague".

Some people threw their enemies out of a window.
The victims were saved from serious injury by landing
in a cart filled with manure.

 

[padisha emperor]

Yep, the representatives of the czech nobility threw out of a window 2 lieutnants of the Emperor Mathias.

Your turn

 

[USViking]

Question:

Leading Imperialist general of the Thirty Years War,
he defeated the Bohemians, Prostestant Germans,
and Danes in its first stages.

Then his army was defeated at Breitenfeld by
Gustavus Adolphus, and shortly thereafter he
suffered a fatal wound in an engagement at
the river Lech, dying at the age of 73, having
served in the army since age 15.

 

[padisha emperor]

Tilly ? (I have hesitation with him and Wallenstein, but this one was assassinated, so...)

 

[USViking]

Tilly ? (I have hesitation with him and Wallenstein, but this one was assassinated, so...)

Tilly is correct. Your question.

 

[padisha emperor]

He was "The Blücher of this day"
Who was this american officer ?

 

[USViking]

He was "The Blücher of this day"
Who was this american officer ?

Please clarify: the Blutcher of his own time in the past,
or the Blutcher of today?

I'm not likely to get it anyway, so if you wish, you can add a hint.

 

[padisha emperor]

Ooops, sorry for the bad precision.

It was the colonel Elzey, CSA. At the battle of Bull Run, the general Jackson (I believe it's him) told him "You are the Blücher of this day" when he came with the men of the Shennandoah

go on

 

[padisha emperor]

This book inspired General Heinz Guderian, the founder of Germany's mechanized armed forces, for the organisation and tactic of the Panzerdivisionen.

what was this book (1st edition : 1934) and who was his author ?

 

[USViking]

In the last few days I have developed a bit
of a fixation on the JFK assasination, which
I have not studied at all in the past.

So here, from that subject, is a Question:

Future US President who was a member of the Warren Commission.

 

[USViking]

In the last few days I have developed a bit
of a fixation on the JFK assasination, which
I have not studied at all in the past.

So here, from that subject, is a Question:

Future US President who was a member of the Warren Commission.

Answer: Gerald Ford.

Question, anyone else?

 

[Said1]

Weapon associated with the Battle of Agincourt?

 

[USViking]

Weapon associated with the Battle of Agincourt?

The English longbow.

Question:
What was the favored wood for making English longbows?

 

[Said1]

The English longbow.

Question:
What was the favored wood for making English longbows?

Yew wood. Where was the wood from, most of the time?

 

[USViking]

Yew wood. Where was the wood from, most of the time?

I read a lot came from the south of France.

It was also the favored wood for making wine barrels,
or some component of wine barrels.

You would have thought the French would have caught on,
but apparently not.

 

[USViking]

Question:

For all the trouble they went to, the English
eventually lost every square foot of land
they owned in France.

What was the last major city they had,
and who was the English ruler at the time
it was lost? (two answers required)

 

[padisha emperor]

City of Calais, took back by the French in 1558.

It was Mary the 1st


For the wood, if French did'nt use it to their bow, it's because they prefered heavy armored Knights and arbalets. Not the best choice fortunatly they used massivly artillery during the end of the war.

Q : For what Calais is known during the 100 Years War ?

 

[USViking]

City of Calais, took back by the French in 1558.

It was Mary the 1st


For the wood, if French did'nt use it to their bow, it's because they prefered heavy armored Knights and arbalets. Not the best choice fortunatly they used massivly artillery during the end of the war.

Q : For what Calais is known during the 100 Years War ?

Calais fell to the English after a difficult seige.

King Edward ?I was angered by the resolute defence,
and was planning to hang several of the city's leading
citizens in retribution.

His wife, Queen ?Phillippa intervened on behalf of the
condemned men, and prevailed upon Edward to spare
them after all.

 

[padisha emperor]

Exactly

It was Edward III (Edward I is the king in Braveheart)

So, it's your turn

 

[USViking]

Question:

Name of the Dallas FBI agent who had a open case on Lee Harvey Oswald
at the time of the Kennedy assassination.

The agent had reopened a closed case on Oswald in 3/63, on account of
information Oswald had subscribed to a Communist periodical. In spite
of being the controlling agent for most of the next eight months, he never
met Oswald face to face, although he did meet Mrs. Oswald twice.

These meetings prompted a visit by Oswald to Dallas FBI HQ 18 days
before the assassination. The agent who had his case was not in, and
Oswald left an unsigned note for him with a receptionist. This note is
the subject of furious controversy.

The FBI receptionist later said she read the note, and that it contained a
threat by Oswald to blow up the FBI office if it did not stop harassing his
wife. The addressee agent said it was a request by Oswald in angry but
inoffensive language to contact him in the future, and to leave his wife alone.

In an act of gross impropriety, The note was destroyed at the order of the
Dallas FBI Special Agent in Charge two days after the assassination.

Conspiracy theorists will never tire of asserting, on the basis of no
evidence whatsoever, that the note included a threat to kill JFK.